Competition, survival, and polarity

[Navaratna]

There are plenty of people like authors and videogame programmers who become millionaires just by putting out their own creativity.

It often seems like shoving someone out of the way is the only way to success but that's just the way it looks on the surface.

I know authors, app game programmers, and app game business owners. Unfortunately, it isn't as simple as you make it out to be. The publishing industries have changed significantly in the last couple of decades. If you don't market your product—and you must compete with others who are spending big on marketing—it gets lost in a sea of many millions of self-published products, however good it might be. There are exceptions of course.

With online aggregate companies such as Fivver, the value of creative services had been driven way, way down. 

I don't mean to be negative, just practical, and tell it the way it is. I get the idea about "creating your own reality." But I have been working for myself since the late 80s, and I have seen the way things have changed since self-publishing became available, and the Internet grew. 

This is not to say one has to cave into STS practices in order to be successful. I am interested to hear from others how they surmount the current state of business affairs. I would like to hear from anyone in the trenches, making it on their own.

It's difficult sometimes to accept that seeking peace is the better route when you see examples of military lords with tremendous wealthy and property for example who will never suffer through consequences of having signed up to kill their enemies while a lot of innocent minded people don't get the wealth, meaning they don't get the women, and as a result don't develop families but I remind myself that being violent usually at the end of the day is not something a good person signs up for. There are other ways to enrich yourself.

I would like to point out that the bolded above reflects very limited thinking. I am assuming it wasn't well thought out, because it sounds not only sexist, but archaic. While it appears that there are many women (the majority perhaps) in this world who are seeking rich men to support them, there are also women who have more awareness, integrity, and self-accountability than that.  And wanting to be with a woman who is shallow and unevolved is something I really don't get, unless the man wanting such is as shallow and unevolved.

I'm not talking about women that are "hot" I'm just describing how a lot of guys join the military so they can get a down payment on a house in a major city because they see it as a necessity for a family. If there were other options I bet people would pursue them, but they're often times not as set in stone. Without it, it would be a lot more difficult in a lot of careers not knowing what level of success you'd achieve and how stable a job is guaranteed as to sustain a mortgage.

A lot of times guys figure out that it's unlikely they'll have a long term relationship with anyone if they are unable to provide a place for themselves and someone they like to live in. I don't think there is anything wrong with recognizing that. It's really rare you're going to find a woman who is going to stick around with a guy that lives in a dump or a van because he can't afford any better. That's just the way it is and most men when making the decisions to join something like the military completely recognize it as a guarantee that they'll qualify for a mortgage with military benefits. Having a family also means being able to pay to feed the family and not living in a small apartment or vehicle. I've witnessed it multiple times where this is a guys chief reasoning for signing away 4 years of his life via contract one of the primary motives being that it guarantees the financial basis for him to sustain a relationship. I didn't bother trying to talk them out of it, but they would hate the idea of being alone while they witness other guys getting married. It's not all about this narrow pathway but it's the way a lot of people will see it. "That guy has a wife, a nice house, and a sizable family while I'm just here working a job I might get laid off from? How about -I- go shove someone out of the way so -I- can have those things!" all frustrated with the idea of being alone, unsure of what kind of career they could pursue that they wouldn't get laid off from for whatever reason. I'm describing what motivates people to make these decisions not advocating it.

As for becoming wealthy as an author or video game developer I am not under the impression everyone is going to be tremendously wealthy, but it's the same way that not everyone is going to become a wealthy CEO in a dog-eat-dog business world the OP describes. I'm just pointing out it is possible to make big without directly shoving someone out of the way.